ENG-339 Emerson to Dickinson

GER: UQ (Ultimate Questions)
Prerequisite: any first year writing seminar
Study of Emerson, Thoreau, Douglass, Stowe, Whitman, Fuller, Poe, Hawthorne, Melville and Dickinson. Through exploring poems, essays, novels, and personal narratives, this course examines living well, considering relationships to nature, to God, and to one’s self. In addition, the course examines concepts of good and evil and the political realities of slavery and the disenfranchisement of women. 4 credits.